37-element adaptive optics experimental system and turbulence compensation experiments

Wenhan Jiang; Ning Ling; Xubin Wu; Chenhong Wang; Hao Xian; Shufu Huang; Zhijun Rong; Chunlin Guan; Lingtao Jiang; Zhiben Gong; Yi Wu; Ying-Jian Wang

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14 October 1996 37-element adaptive optics experimental system and turbulence compensation experiments

Wenhan Jiang, Ning Ling, Xubin Wu, Chenhong Wang, Hao Xian, Shufu Huang, Zhijun Rong, Chunlin Guan, Lingtao Jiang, Zhiben Gong, Yi Wu, Ying-Jian Wang

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Proceedings Volume 2828, Image Propagation through the Atmosphere; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.254180
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

A 37 element adaptive optics system has been built in the Institute of Optics and Electronics for experimental research of atmospheric effect compensation. In this system a 37 subaperture Shack-Hartmann sensor with frame rate 380 Hz is used as wavefront sensor, a 37/55 element deformable mirror and a fast steering mirror as wavefront correctors, a digital signal processor with peak operation speed 100 Mops as wavefront processor and controller, and 39 channels of high voltage amplifier for controlling the wavefront correctors. This system has been integrated with a turbulence cell developed by the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics and experiments for compensating for wavefront errors induced by the turbulence of the cell with different strength have been conducted. Another Shack- Hartmann wavefront sensor is used for measuring the strength of turbulence. The integrated probability density functions of both the coherence length r₀ and the Strehl ratio of S of the focused spot are used to describe the strength of turbulence and the sharpness of focused spots with and without correction. In this paper the adaptive optics system and the experimental results are briefly reported.

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Wenhan Jiang, Ning Ling, Xubin Wu, Chenhong Wang, Hao Xian, Shufu Huang, Zhijun Rong, Chunlin Guan, Lingtao Jiang, Zhiben Gong, Yi Wu, and Ying-Jian Wang "37-element adaptive optics experimental system and turbulence compensation experiments", Proc. SPIE 2828, Image Propagation through the Atmosphere, (14 October 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.254180

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